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El Palacio Winter 2024 Reading and Q&A
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El Palacio Winter 2024 Reading and Q&A

January 5, 2025
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Vernick Auditorium

Please join us for a reading panel and Q&A with three contributors to the winter issue. Featured readings include:

Dr. Elizabeth Perrill’s article about the telephone wire weaving and art that emerged from Apartheid South Africa and continues to thrive today.

Nikki Nojima Louis’s essay about the way her life and family relationships were shaped by the her internment with her mother in Idaho, and her father’s internment in New Mexico, in the Japanese American internment camps that were created during World War II.

Joelle Mendoza’s article about a musical score, "Dispatch," by Raven Chacon and Candice Hopkins that serves as a template for activism and resistance.

Following the readings, editor of El Palacio, Emily Withnall, will facilitate a Q&A. Light refreshments will be served.

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